Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Mitarb.]: The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (London, 1857)

BOXES FOE THE TOILETTE-TABLE.

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or the human figure; and boxes that held the kolil, or col-
lyriuui, used for painting the eyes, were also of various fanciful
shapes (woodcut 81). But they were not always of wood; and
many were of coloured porcelain, and other richer materials; and
some, made of coloured glass, of the same quality as the imita-
tion Murrhine cups, already mentioned, were in the form of
an Egyptian column.

Some boxes appear to partake of the character of spoons,
the handle terminating in a goose's head, or representing a
whole fox, or a white slave holding
a cup in the shape of a goose with
a movable lid;* and one of these
last, discovered at Thebes, curiously
illustrates a mode adopted by slaves
of wearing their plaited hair, which
in this, and other instances diuered
much from that of Egyptian ladies.f
Similar handles, in the form of human
figures, were adopted by the Greeks,
for vases and paterw.

Another specimen occurs of a
small box for the toilette-table, borne
by a girl carved in wood, the whole
being about five and a half inches
high (woodcut 82) ; and numerous
other fanciful boxes, cups, and
spoons, were the work of the cabinet-
makers and the carvers in wood.

Wood was used not only for small ornamental figures and
trinkets, but for large statues also. Nor was this chiefly

* P. A. of Ancient Egyptians, toL i. pp. 159—162, 1S3, lS-i.
t lb., vol. i. p. ICO (woodcut 177).

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